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RFE/RL NEWSLINE  3 June 1999 

HUNGARIAN PARTIES AGREE ON KOSOVA PARTICIPATION. All six 
parliamentary parties on 2 June agreed that Hungarian 
armed forces should take part in a Kosova peacekeeping 
force if a peace agreement is concluded, Foreign 
Minister Janos Martonyi told Hungarian media. He said 
the government earlier was against sending armed troops 
to Kosova, but he noted that now a new situation has 
developed, offering a "real opportunity" for concluding 
a peace agreement in the region. In related news, the 
parliament assented the same day to the participation of 
five Hungarians in a possible NATO peacekeeping force in 
Kosova. MSZ 

HUNGARIAN EXTREMIST LEADER PRESENTS ANNEXATION MAP. 
Istvan Csurka, chairman of the extreme-right Hungarian 
Justice and Life Party, presented a map on 2 June 
showing a part of Vojvodina that, he said, must be 
annexed to Hungary after the end of the war in 
Yugoslavia. "The party's goal is to see the Hungarian- 
inhabited region restored to Hungary, not the entire 
province," Csurka explained. He said a referendum should 
precede a one- or two-year annexation process supervised 
by the UN. Jozsef Kasza, chairman of the Federation of 
Vojvodina Hungarians, said that Csurka's "irresponsible 
remarks" put ethnic Hungarians in the province in "an 
even more difficult situation." Hungarian Foreign 
Ministry spokesman Gabor Horvath said Csurka's proposal 
is "unacceptable to the cabinet and contradicts the 
country's foreign policy." MSZ 

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